Salem Oak
Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church Cemetery, New Jersey, USA Fallen I discovered this historic 600 Year old White Oak Tree on one of my explorations of historic sites. I was amazed at its history and size. Sitting among tombstones dating back to the 1700’s & 1800’s. It was said that Revolutionary Soldiers would sit under the […]
Sawbridge-Erle-Drax Mausoleum
New York, New York, USA
Closed 1958, demolished 1959
Shell Garden by Sidney Dowdeswell
Hindlip, Worcestershire, England, UK Demolished 1980s There is a film about the shell garden. It’s this clip that stuck in my mind. I saw it as a child. He’d spent 40 years on it in 1962. It also demonstrates the possibilities of cement. You can mould concrete like jelly when you know how. The porcelain […]
Teufelsberg Listening Station
Berlin, Germany Closed 1992 I visited Teufelsberg a long time ago, can’t remember much of the visit. Only remember that in the big dome there were a group of teenagers smoking weed, it was a really strange atmosphere. Andre Requested By Mira O. Teufelsberg (trans. Devil’s Hill) is a non-natural hill in Berlin created out of […]
Tholsel Bar
Kilkenny, Ireland Closed 2020 Kilkenny lost a true gentleman in Benji Lawlor. Anon The Tholsel was a bar located at the Parade end of Kilkenny’s High Street. Named after Kilkenny’s Tholsel building, the Tholsel Bar was almost as famous as its owner, the late Brendan ‘Benji’ Lawlor. Mr Lawlor, who was indelibly linked with Kilkenny […]
Tic Tac Toe Chicken
Chinatown, New York, New York, USA Retired 2002 As a connoisseur of cheap entertainments, I was drawn to the forlorn chicken in its box because, while it was also supposed to seem somehow mechanical among the other mechanical games, really it was a holdover from Medieval Fairgrounds, a chicken Mechanical Turk. And it reminded me […]
Torre Nueva
Zaragoza, Spain Demolished We could have had our own leaning tower of Pisa! Anon. The Leaning Tower of Zaragoza, sometimes called by its Spanish name, Torre Nueva (new tower), was a brick tower built in 1504 located in the Plaza de San Felipe). The leaning tower became an icon for the city. It was the highest Mudéjar-style tower […]
Ukraine
Ukraine Invaded 2014 and 2022 Requested by so many people verbally. Ukraine is the second-largest European country after Russia which it borders to the east and northeast, covering approximately 600,000 square kilometres (230,000 sq mi). Prior to the ongoing Russian invasion it was the eighth most populous country in Europe, with a population of around 41 million […]
Veterans Stadium
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Demolished As someone who has been going to Philadelphia sports events my whole life, I still wonder what a Phillies or Eagles game might have been like at Veterans Stadium. When the stadium closed, I was only three years old, so I never would have been able to experience it like my […]
Vienna Rotunde
Kilkenny, Ireland Closed I learned about the site in university and just thought it was so big and fascinating. And that such a big architecture could actually burn down made me sad. I would have loved to climb up those stairs and look over my hometown Vienna. Mirabelle S. Vienna held the world exhibition in 1873 […]
Vineland Speedway
Vineland, New Jersey, USA Closed Memories of going there when it was open. Gary M. A center of auto racing in the Philadelphia region in the 50s and 60s, the Vineland Speedway opened as a half-mile oval dirt track in 1955. By 1958 the track was paved and the Speedway had grown to include a […]
Wigancice Żytawskie / Weigsdorf
Poland Demolished 1999 The picturesque village of Wigancice Żytawskie / Weigsdorf in Poland was demolished to make way for a coal mine. There are calls for its reconstruction. The village of Wigancice Żytawskie doesn’t exist physically since 1999, when it was liquidated as a result of the expansion of the Turów coal mine. Officially the […]
White Terraces
New Zealand Volcanic Eruption 1886 The Pink and White Terraces (Reo Māori: Te Otukapuarangi) on the edge of Rotomahana were one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most famous sites before the eruption of Tarawera in the 1800s. People used to visit from all over the world to sit in the thermal pools. The tourism industry at […]
Whitney Glassworks
Glassboro, New Jersey, USA Closed Because that is why the town is called GLASSboro. Kristin Q. Long before it was a college town, Glassboro was a glass town. In 1779 German immigrant Solomon Stanger purchased 200 acres to establish a factory for the manufacture of glass. Known as the “Glass Works in the Woods” a […]
Great Walls of Benin
Benin City, Edo, Nigeria Destroyed 1897 I was born and raised in southern Nigeria in a town called Warri, Bendel State; the capital was Benin City. I always knew about the Benin people and culture as I had family, friends, classmates, and neighbors who were from the Benin tribe. I was even more fascinated by […]
Zee Peach Farm
708 Mullica Hill Road, Glassboro, New Jersey, USA Closed Would stop on the way home from work to buy these great peaches. Miss the open space and the farm environment where the hospital now sits. Mary S. Known for their JerZee peaches, Zee Orchards was started in 1943 with the purchase by Wilmer Zee of 64 […]